Bird Finds in Avon and Somerset and beyond.

Below are my most memorable bird finds throughout the years:

Savi's Warbler Brean Down 8th April 2008
Temminck's Stint Newport Wetlands NR, Gwent 7th May 2008
Cattle Egret Brean Down 27th April 2008
White-rumped Sandpiper River Axe 20th October 2006
Wryneck Middle Hope 9th October 2006
Lesser Yellowlegs River Axe 7th-11th October 2006
Common Rosefinch Sand Point 9th June 2006
Chough Sand Point 19th - 20th April 2006
White Stork nr Wick, Somerset 25th-28th March 2006
Yellow-browed Warbler Middle Hope 6th - 8th October 2005
White-winged Black Tern Weston STW 7th - 12th September 2005
Serin Middle Hope 30th May 2005
Wryneck Brean Down 25th August 2004
Red-rumped Swallow West Huntspill 31st May - 1st June 2004
Great-white Egret east along Huntspill river 26th May 2003
Hoopoe Brean Down 30th May 2003 (seen later flying past Weston STW)
Rose-coloured Starling Brean Down 3 adults 2nd June 2002
Greenish Warbler Brean Down male in song early morning and again singing late morning 2nd June 2002
Sardinian Warbler Brean Down 14th - 21st October 2001
Pallas's Warbler Brean Down 13th November 2000
American Golden Plover Parrett Estuary November year unsure c.1999
Wryneck Brean Down at fort 25th-26th September 1999
White-winged Black Tern Parrett Estuary 19th September into November 1999
Red Kite Brean Down flew out to sea. later seen at lavernock 29th August 1999
Little Auk - on tideline Steart Point 19th November 1990
Wryneck Sand Point flushed by style 4th September 1983
Tawny Pipit Brean Down on slope with meadow pipts east side of trig point 7th April 1983
Serin Worlebury Hill with finches on edge of golf course August 1978